Aftereffects Reveal That Adaptive Face-Coding Mechanisms Are Selective for Race and Sex

The Science of Social Vision

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Rhodes, Gillian ^a   Jaquet, Emma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive mechanisms; Face discrimination; Face coding; Faces; Social interaction; Visual representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881181253     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195333176.003.0021     Document Type: Chapter

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